Well – if not obvious – Im a bit behind on these posts so I’ll do my best to try and be explicit about when I did some of these things as the post date will not align with when I actually did these things. In our last post I Read more…
Well – my last post was more than a year ago where I talked about grafting apple trees. So it seems to make sense to pick things up with that same topic. I had spent some time at the end of last year looking at options for ordering rootstock and Read more…
While Laura and I had already taken a grafting class at the MN arboretum, I was curious to get more experience so I signed up for a class at Albrecht’s Nursery in Chippewa Falls WI. I was pleased to find it was only about an hour drive from the farm. Read more…
One of the things Im rather anxious to start doing at the farm is planting the orchard and vineyard. I’ve spent the last few years buying books on the various topics surrounding orchards and vineyards but if Im being honest I just haven’t taken the time to read more than Read more…
While James has been busy on our barn foundation, I started work on building new sash window frames for the barn. The existing frames are in need of replacement and even if they were still usable we weren’t able to find replacement windows that fit them. I would have loved Read more…
When we started looking for a farm years ago – I had secretly hoped it would be an old farmstead that had an old barn. There’s something incredible to me about the older barns that are still standing after 100+ years. I love the construction – the old hand-hewn beams Read more…